There has been a lot of recent discussion about various uses of the PUA.
Can someone point to widespread instances of confusion and chaos right now
over PUA usage? I don't think there is any.
It seems to me there's a lot of effort being expended to engineer the
regulation of something that hasn't been shown to be a problem in the
world, or in any need of regulation.
For the most-part, it's been my impression that actual PUA usages are very
localized and platform-specific, and the characters tend not to leak all
over the place. If end-users have a demonstrable need to widely
communicate some set of characters, I would think they might first consider
them as candidates for standardization; not as evidence that arcane
regulatory mechanisms need to be engineered for the PUA.
Most things that most people need are already encoded. I don't see people
coming to this list with existing collections of entities that are not
encoded, and yet need to be widely transmitted and stored. (Of course, I
am not referring to unencoded minority scripts, many of which UTC already
knows about.)
If such collections were widespread, I'm sure UTC would like to hear about them.
Rick
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